nightterrors wrote:About the drums...
Dave Grohl played on First it Giveth and I believe on Appear missing... (It sounds like his drumming)
I hope you're not dissin' one of the best current rock drummers there bud. Of course drum beats are reused! You're listening to rock here man. ACDC used the same drum beat for every song they ever made! (Hahaha)
People get too stuck on bands past releases.. I mean, if they released an album that sounded like the S/T there would be people who complained about it sounding the same. either way they get shit on, but they seem to have alot more success with this new record and they deserve it. Incredible band.
With that being said... I don't like the new Soundgarden record really, but I respect the fact that they can't keep releasing the same record and as time passes people in the band listen to new music and get new influences and want to play different stuff or incorporate different stuff.
You can absolutely still tell its QOTSA and its a great progression I feel. It's a solid album front to back, and you don't get many albums that are solid front to back nowadays...
They played a huge amount of old material and the whole new album (except fairweather friends)
Last night. Great live band.
They played In The Fade too... Was so stoked on that.
Oh no, it's not meant as an insult to Dave Grohl. I was just thinking that it might have been part of the point of the album (like I said, not only are the drums on those two parts very similar, but some lyrics were reused too). Pointing out that I noticed that wasn't meant as a bad thing, I actually thought it was pretty cool that they seemed to be kinda revisiting some of the old stuff in a new way.
I don't care much about the past releases (as far as making comparisons go). I enjoyed everything they've done (I'm even amongst the apparently rare fans that actually likes Era Vulgaris
), but it's just that quite a few of the songs on this album didn't do anything for me. I don't expect them to remake the old stuff, and to be honest, I would have been annoyed if they did put out another S/T or SFTD. 
Agreed on Soundgarden.
Of course you can still tell it's them, it's just that quite a few of the songs don't seem like they're as good as they could have been (imo). It's still listenable (and even somewhat enjoyable at times), but it's a bit like a lot of Nick Cave's post Boatman's Call stuff for me (of course it's not a good stylistic comparison, but the "could have been more to it" feeling applies to both for me).
And yeah, from what I've seen so far, they're the best they've ever been when it comes to live stuff. How's SFTD in the live sets? Only asking cus I haven't really seen any videos of them doing that on this tour when they're apparently playing it sometimes, and I was wondering how Josh is doing with the vocals on that these days.
That's awesome. In the fade has always been one of my favorite songs. Shame that they don't seem to play it very often.
